Group Calls For Assault Weapons Ban In Falls Church, Virginia

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (WUSA) -- Jim Burch says the time has come, at long last, for America to stand up to the National Rifle Association and adopt meaningful gun control laws.

"We seem to honor the caliber of our weapons and not the caliber of our character," Burch said.

The Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of One Spirit, Burch led a small but passionate group of protestors outside NOVA Firearms in Falls Church, calling, for starters, for a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, in the bloody wake of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

"To allow these types of guns that have no other purpose than to murder, slaughter innocent people and children is just insane," Burch insisted.